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How Academic-Based Survey Research Organizations Inform and Influence the Development of Subnational Public Policy
This field note describes how the public polling produced by academic-based survey research organizations provides state and local policymakers with information regarding public preferences. As an illustrative case study, the paper documents how ...
Publication · August 20, 2025
What Happened/s to Inclusion? A Plea and Three Proposals for Closing the Gap between Democratic Theory and Empirical Measurement of Democracies
Abstract
This paper aims to contribute to the new wave of democracy measurement that we have experienced during the last years. We show that the new democracy measurement tools represent major steps forwards in aligning methodology to theory and p...
Publication · August 20, 2025